Mid-Century Modern Events

08.10.10

Peter Loughrey, founder and director of Los Angeles Modern Auctions, has been dealing in Wegner designs since 1989. We asked him about the pieces in the organization’s 50th auction, to be held October 17, 2010.

12.06.09

Ib Geertsen is the grand old man of Danish abstraction, but was little known in the UK until he was championed by London's Rocket Gallery in a recent group show with other Danes associated with an abstract movement known as Konkrete. ... He trained as a gardener rather than an artist, but came to prominence as a painter in the 1950s with other Konkrete artists, and pursued with them a distinctive hard-edged, geometric abstract language which arguably pre-dated comparable developments in America.

01.02.09

More on those later, but first: Londoners shouldn’t miss the upcoming exhibit at Rocket Gallery: “ Ib Geertsen, mobiles, paintings, screenprints ” from 6 February to 28 March. ... For those not in the know, the Rocket is a contemporary art gallery with a soft spot for classic modern furniture, having shown work by Kjaerholm , Risom , and others .

05.01.09

Gary Hustwit, the filmmaker who brought typography out of obscurity with “ Helvetica ”, is now doing the same for product design with his upcoming “ Objectified ”. Along with contemporary greats, at least one hero of mid-century design stars in the documentary: Dieter Rams .

05.11.08

I may have to take a trip to London just to see the V&A Museum’s Cold War Modern , “the first exhibition to explore international developments in modern art, design, architecture and film in the context of the Cold War”. The microsite offers several videos, including these two from white hot industrial design guru Dieter Rams.

24.04.07

“Modernism in Silver Lake” will feature recent works by David Jonason, which celebrate the mid-century architectural designs of Modernist masters including Richard Neutra, Rudolf Schindler, and Gregory Ain. The exhibition...